Entry 32: The Saddest of All Prisons

"The saddest of all prisons is a person's own heart." 

In various works of literature we have seen the effects of sin and guilt on characters. In the world today, do people still carry guilt for secret sins committed in the past? Can these guilty secrets isolate people from others and even from parts of themselves? Explain. What about you? Do you ever feel guilty about your past actions? How do you deal with feelings of guilt? Do you think it is better to keep it secret and wait for it to go away, or to bring it out into the open? Why?

• Many people today do carry and still carry the guilt that has formed from the secret sins that they had committed before. Some, however, just let the guilt go. It all depends on who you are, what your personality is, and how you view the world. If you thought that nobody cares and that it doesn't matter, then you wouldn't feel guilty for long. However, if you firmly believed that you had done something that is absolutely unforgivable, then you will carry the guilt with you for a long, long time. And this guilt sometimes isolates people. This is because they want to escape the guilt that it further emphasized by their peers (or accidentally triggered by their peers). I, like everyone else, am guilty of something one time or another. For example, I am guilty when I did something bad or when I got someone into trouble. How do I deal with it? Easy. I let it slowly pass away (though it actually passes away quite quickly), since I am the type of people who believes that after sometime, nobody will care about that small (or big) incident anymore. However, if the thing that I did was bad to an extreme extent, then the guilt will stick with me and I will feel guilty every time I see the person or thing.